'Southern Baptist Sissies,' starring James O'Hagan-Murphy, won the Denver Post Ovation Award as best drama of 2006.

After a three-year dormancy, Colorado’s first and longest-running theater company dedicated to telling gay stories is coming back to life as Theatre Out Denver.

For 37 years, Theatre Group introduced works ranging from important to raunchy, primarily at the now-closed Theatre On Broadway and Phoenix Theatre. The company closed in financial disarray in November 2008.

But, “I decided I just couldn’t stay away, and the theater addiction has been too hard to fight,” said artistic director Steven Tangedal, who is reviving The Denver Post Ovation Award-winning best play of 2006, “Southern Baptist Sissies,” at the city-run Crossroads Theatre in the Five Points neighborhood just north of downtown.Read more…

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The show takes a nod from the popular “Miscast” fundraisers that have recently come under the umbrella of Paragon Theatre. The idea: Gather performers to perform songs they would normally never be appropriately cast for.

Audiences may recall a quirky musical that played here about 10 years ago called “A Brief History of White Music,” in which black actors put their particular spin on typical “white” music, such as Elvis Presley, The Beatles and Neil Diamond.

“I wanted to put together a little show that featured the same idea – only backward,” said Pineda, “talented white performers giving their own twist to the black musical.”Read more…

Film & theater critic Lisa Kennedy likes to watch -- a lot. She also has a fondness for no-man’s lands, contested territories and Venn Diagrams. She believes the best place to live is usually on the border between two vibrant neighborhoods. Where better to apply this penchant for overlap and divergence than covering film and theater – two arts that owe so much to each other yet offer radically idiosyncratic pleasures? In another life, Kennedy was an Obie judge. In this one, she’s been a Pulitzer Prize judge in criticism, an Independent Spirit Award jurist and Colorado’s first member of the National Society of Film Critics.

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